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Phoenix voters are headed to the polls this Tuesday and, when all is said and done, a new mayor will be selected. City Clerk Denise Archibald is overseeing the election and joined The Show to talk about it.

The sci-fi genre is full of tales of humans exploring Mars, often because they’re drawn to learning something that could, possibly, change the scope of the universe. But there are many real scientists today working on ways to get us to Mars and readily adjust once we get there.

If you’ve paid to renew your vehicle’s registration in Arizona recently, you may have noticed a $32 fee attached to it. Lawmakers approved a new fee last year, to use for funding the state highway department. But at the time, they expected the fee to be $18.

The Arizona Board of Regents is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Attorney General targeting state colleges’ real estate dealings. In recent years, Arizona State University has made several lucrative deals with private developers. University-owned land is exempt from taxes.

Arizona lawmakers approved a vehicle registration fee last year to fund highway construction. They estimated it would be $18 a year but in order to fund all the expected programs it actually became $32.

By the end of this month, two ranches in Sonora — Arizona’s Mexican neighbor to the south — will have game camera systems installed in a binational project with Arizona. That will help wildlife officials in both states monitor binational species.
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The Glendale City Council recently approved a development agreement for a new, multi-million dollar manufacturing facility in a partnership between manufacturer Ball Corporation, Red Bull and Rauch Fruit Juices.

On Sunday, an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed, killing all 157 passengers on board. Both this crash, and a Lion Air crash in Indonesia six months ago that killed 189 passengers, occurred on Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes.

Voters will choose a new mayor and possibly two new council members. The runoff election for mayor is between Kate Gallego and Daniel Valenzuela. The winner will serve the remainder of Greg Stanton’s term.

Most Americans do not think colleges and universities should consider an applicant’s race when determining whether or not they accept that applicant into the school. These results arrive against the backdrop of a legal case in Boston over the role race plays in admissions policies at Harvard.

Those empty tree wells along Phoenix's light rail lines will soon have a new sapling to hold. The Public Transit Department will fill the wells and replace some of the damaged palo verde and mesquite trees up and down the light rail system with a heartier pistache tree.

Dolphinaris Arizona, the dolphin attraction located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Reservation that shuttered after the deaths of four dolphins in its first two years of operation, is officially not reopening.